[pjmlp]

Because those things go hand in hand, the large majority of developers aren't doing HPC, Fintech or work at FAANG, or even posting on HN and Reddit, rather they are the so called "dark matter developers" whose applications must run on those Core i3 and i5 used by the consumers at large.

As such most developers only bother to use what they already know and take very little effort for adding any form of parallelism or concurrency to their applications.

Android and UWP since the start have taken architecture decisions that forbid synchronous code, because both companies came to the conclusion that if that would be available, the developers would write single threaded code as they have been doing for years, so they took that option out of the platform.

[pedrocr]

You've just switched to a totally different discussion. I don't agree with it either, because I see everyone around me in home-office, not even developers just workers in a normal corporate environment, that can definitely use that extra performance. But that wasn't the point being discussed.

[pjmlp]

Me too I see them, using Core i3 and i5 rented from our customer IT department to integrate into their networks and development stacks.

I am yet to see anyone using one of those AMD CPUs that get so high praises on HN.

[pedrocr]

They've only now started to roll out. Our corporate IT is now putting them in the default config for everyone's laptop.